Giovanni Battista Caccini

Giovanni Battista Caccini or Giovan Battista Caccini (Montopoli in Valley of Arno, 1556 - Florence, 1613) is a sculptor and an architect of the school florentine.

Biography

Young person, it attends the delle Accademia Arti del Disegno of Florence and enters then to the service of the court of the Médicis, as sculptor.

After having collaborated with Giovanni Antonio Dosio, it enters to the workshop of Giambologna in 1578, but its style will not remain about it not influenced.

In the years 1590, it opens its personal workshop.

Many are with its hand of the portraits of characters of the time, often carved in busts.

He also works with Pisa, where he carves some ones of the low-reliefs destroyed of the new doors of the dome of Pisa on drawings of Raffaello Pagni.

In 1601, one owes him, as an architect, the peristyle of the gantry of the basilica della Santissima Annunziata.

Its style follows the dominant fashion, derived from the agreed mannerism of Giambologna, it is stylized more but not therefore less elegant.

With Pietro Tacca and Pietro Francavilla, there remains the principal scultptor Florentin of the turning of the century.

Works

Between his principal works, one will retain:

two statues of l' Be and the Fall for the bridge Santa Trinita,
the group of marble of Charles V crowning the Pope Clement VII of the room of the Five hundreds of the Palazzo Vecchio,
chorus and the ciborium of the church Santo Spirito (1590-1606)
much of other allegorical statues in the Garden of Boboli ( Prudence, Esculape, the Fall, the Summer, Fauna and Jupiter ).

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